the alt-right

How are teenage boys even hearing about Jordan Peterson in the first place? Does he show up as a suggestion in a youtube Overwatch playlist or something? Twitch advertising? It's terrifying that young men are apparently such fertile ground for that kind of shit right now.

It has to be mostly Youtube. All kinds of stuff on Youtube leads towards Jordan Peterson. Pew Die Pie was holding up a copy of his book last month.

At least in Canada, he has been getting a ridiculous amount of mainstream media coverage for years at this point. The National Post opinion pages were practically functioning as his cheerleading squad for a while. P sure it would be easier than it was for teenage boys to hear about Chomsky in the 90s. xp

last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused

Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground

last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused

Prepping for a blind date?

The apparently authentic enthusiasm for JP among young people--as well as its magnitude and reach--might be the most distressing thing for me since Trump was elected. If the kids aren't alright, I'm running out of things to feel optimistic about

My preferred response when encountering such: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ab9df7b8-db3b-4772-982f-bdf8e9e5c90e

gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre

quick survey of the youth in my experience is that v v few are paying attention to JP but every one of them will start a band

i just pray every day that none of my students tries to drop some jp ~noledge~ on me

jp's stupid fucking voice has ruined 'the rainbow connection' forevermore and for that along he should be dropped down a well

er, that alone

Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground

Wait, that's truly the same guy?? I just thought it was some self-help guru with the same name! The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.

xxp don't let him ruin kermit (a prince)

gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre

the title of the video I saw was something like "Why Men Are Going Their Own Way" (it wasn't worded that way but it definitely had the same sentiment) so I sure hope so

oh good that's just a fleetwood mac cover and lyric video, JP sitting in his bedroom studio behind a pop shield crying about someone he met on match.com that called him a dildo while he was eating noodles

dildos are more useful than jordan peterson

The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.

I think combining these different sides is part of the reason for his popularity. He has credibility for many young men as a source of life advice because they see him as being on the right side of the culture war against feminists and trans people.

Meanwhile, some who are leery of the alt-right see at least something compelling in what he says about psychology, mythology, archetypes, etc., and so they go to bat for him in trying to disentangle it all.

otm esp on that second point

dildos are more useful than jordan peterson

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, March 12, 2018 12:13 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

facts

xxp so he's like rupi kaur

rupi kaur for edgelord shitposters

this kind of ties back into the whole anti-psychiatry and anti-medication element of it: therapists may be bad, but jordan peterson isn't

yikes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html

this sorta seems relevant

White does mention a fondness for the controversial author and YouTube philosopher Jordan Peterson, though he's apparently only seen him talking about religion. "He's got more intelligence in his brain than his body can handle," he says. Later, I mention the anti-feminist, anti-political-correctness screeds for which Peterson is also known. "I didn't know about that," White says. "Maybe we should drop that whole thing now!"

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jack-white-cover-story-new-album-white-stripes-w517705

rmde

thats the funniest shit ive seen in a minute

jesus goddamn christ

tomato, tomato, potato, fascism, let's call the whole thing off

Here’s something:

https://m.mic.com/articles/188397/richard-spencer-suspending-the-rest-of-his-college-tour-because-antifa-is-winning#.PGriurKlx

He been r-u-n-n-o-f-t!

That’s where I live and work; I was out of town last week but followed along on Twitter. Some small number of nazis met up with 500+ protestors, only about 10 people made it into his talk and like half of those were journalists. And all this happened on the first day of spring break in a cow barn in the middle of nowhere.

His meeting / conference scheduled for the previous day in the Detroit burbs never happened as the venues cancelled when they figured out who had made the reservations, antifa folks were tailing them around and hassling them while they were awaiting directions and one Nazi got arrested for pulling a gun on someone.

Was kind of bummed about moving back to Michigan last year but pleased if this is the thing that shuts down this aspect of his bullshit.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/white-nationalist-matt-heimbach-arrested-domestic-violence-charges

God, Jordan Peterson has come to Denmark. His podcast is apparently popular.

The Heimbach story is something else.

ohohoho what that TPM story doesn't say is

Matt Heimbach, leader of the neo-nazi Traditionalist Worker Party, was arrested after police say he assaulted his wife, Brooke. Brooke's father-in-law, Matt Parrott, discovered Heimbach having an affair with his wife, Jessica Parrott, before the incident. https://t.co/88UBEh2FXg

— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 14, 2018

Matt Parrott was also Heimbach's second-in-command in the Traditionalist Worker Party, acting as a media spokesman and systems administrator. He has since taken the neo-nazi group's website, which he had been running, offline. https://t.co/88UBEh2FXg pic.twitter.com/kAh8YWWRbh

— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) March 14, 2018

Cucks, all?

Whomst is the check?

Wasn't this the guy who got a tongue-bath profile in the New York Times earlier this year?

heimbach actually has a lot of times mentions!

https://www.google.com/search?q=heimbach+nyt&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS692US692&oq=heimbach+nyt&aqs=chrome..69i57.5166j0j9&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

who supremes the supremacists

ok how the fuck is Jessica Parrot a real name?

https://s1.thcdn.com/productimg/960/960/11539264-7294512067807017.jpg

The arrest followed a bizarre sequence of events stemming from an extramarital affair Heimbach was conducting with his wife’s step-mother-in-law, according to the police report.

The white nationalist leader is married to the step-daughter of Matt Parrott, the Traditionalist Worker Party’s chief spokesman. Per the police report, Heimbach attacked both Parrott and his own wife, Brooke Heimbach, after the pair confronted Matthew Heimbach about an affair he was carrying out with Matt Parrott’s wife, Jessica.

The group all live in the same trailer park compound in rural Paoli, Indiana, where the Traditionalist Worker Party is based. In statements to the police, all four listed their professions as “white nationalists.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/matthew-heimbach-police-report-domestic-battery-affair

better days https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html

that poor kid

Thread on the possible evolution of alt-right/fash groups in the wake of recent failures:

I hope I’m not boring anyone with this Generation Identity nonsense, I believe it’s coming our way, and regardless of its impact we should study the games crypto-fascist movements play. https://t.co/cVoR1ewIJY

— zerf 🐑🐑🐑 herder (@hfricken) March 12, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html

this sorta seems relevant

― gbx

i installed a plugin to keep youtube from recommending videos to me years ago. it kept recommending me white supremacist videos whenever i would watch classical music videos or video game speedruns.

i think the world would be well-served if governments would install a plugin to keep youtube from recommending videos to their citizens.

i know that's proto-fascist of me but i am just so fed up today with human beings' utter inability to think critically that i'm trying to have all ideas banned. (yesterday i was trying to have time outlawed.)

it kept recommending me white supremacist videos whenever i would watch classical music videos or video game speedruns.

lmao what else were you watching